"Thousands" Of US-Aligned Iraqi Kurds Stage Ground Invasion of Iran
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This morning I watched a military YouTuber, "Cappy," who said that the US and Israel were using million-dollar missiles to take out small outposts and police stations in western Iran. Such a use of pricey ordnance on such dinky targets would not make sense... unless the missiles were being used to clear a path for a force of ground invasion troops.
Which turns out to have been the plan.
Update: Commenters point out that multiple Kurdish sources are denying these reports.
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Schmoll: Republicans Pull Dead Even with Democrats in Congressional Midterm Race, 50/50
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A stunning new survey conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS), the Harris Poll, and HarrisX suggests that the GOP has drawn even with the Democrats with eight months to go until the midterm elections.The poll of 1,999 registered voters, which was conducted online between February 25 and 26, found that 50% of Americans would vote for the Republican candidate in their congressional district and 50% would vote for the Democratic one if the midterms were held today. That marked an enormous improvement for the GOP, which trailed the Democrats 54%-46% on the same question last month.
Trump's job approval also ticked up by 3%:
For his part, Trump's net approval rating ticked upward from -6 last month (45%-51%) to -3, (46%-49%).
In more Schmolling news: Reports of a "MAGA split" over Iran have been greatly exaggerated.
The "split" involves the MAGA Grifters, a small but very loud group of rebranded American Bund Nazis who seem to be omnipresent because none of them have jobs and they post anti-Jewish propaganda all day online, and normie conservatives with jobs and families.
The normie conservatives are at least four times as numerous as the American Bund Nazis.
The RealClearPolitics Average showed that overall support for Operation Epic Fury, the joint military campaign undertaken by the United States and Israel over the weekend, had the president underwater a bit with 39% approving of the action and 52% disapproving.A breakdown of some of the individual polls showed that Republicans were united on the issue, with no one poll showing more than 18% opposing military action in Iran. The vast majority of the disapproval came from Democrats -- who were also fairly united -- and, to a lesser extent, independents.
A CBS/YouGov poll taken between March 2 and March 3, for example, showed that just 10% of Democrats approved of military action in Iran and 90% disapproved. Among independents, 63% opposed the action and 37% were in favor. A majority of Republicans (85%) supported military action and just 15% did not.
A similar result came from a Washington Post poll taken on March 1, which showed Democrat opposition at 87% and support at 9%. On the Republican side, 81% approved and 12% did not -- and independents once again fell in the middle, with 59% against military action and 28% in favor of it.
A Reuters/Ipsos survey followed the same pattern, with 5% of Democrats supporting military action in Iran and 95% against it. Republicans came out largely in favor of military action, showing 82% approving and 18% disapproving. Among independents, 67% disapproved and 29% supported the action.
The apparent outlier included in the average was a poll from InsiderAdvantage taken on February 28, but it still showed similar numbers from Republicans: 79.3% in favor and 12% opposed. The numbers for Democrats shifted slightly, with 62.5% disapproving and 32.1% approving. Independents also showed much higher numbers in favor of military action, with 45.3% supporting and 40.3% opposing.
I'm definitely not saying that if you've made the unwise choice to join the ranks of the anti-intervention absolutists and Ron Paul acolytes, then you're a Nazi.
But I am saying that the Nazis are all lining up to denounce this particular military action, because the only issue that revs their engine is Israel. And they're not neutral in this war; like the left that they so closely resemble (because they're racialist lefties), they're not anti-war, they're just on the other side. They want Iran to finish that nuclear missile and drop it on the Jewish capital.
They say about the left: It doesn't matter what issue you're talking about, for a leftist, the issue is always and only about The Revolution. Every issue is just an excuse to propagandize for The Revolution.
Gay? You need communism. Trans? Communism will fix you. Black? Have you ever heard of communism?
And so it is with the pseudoright Nazis: No matter what issue is being discussed, the only issue they're interested in is, as they call it, the "JQ," the "Jewish Question," which is a euphemism. They say "JQ" because it sounds better than what the question actually is, which is the same question Hitler asked: What are we going to do with all of these unwanted Jews infiltrating our society and subverting us?
And no, I'm not going to hold back any longer. I held back for ten fucking years. I am done playing nice with the Nazis. The Nazis used to employ a small level of Plausible Deniability, so that it felt rude to accuse of them of being Nazis.
But, like the leftwing they resemble in so many ways, they aren't even bothering to hide it any longer, so I'm not going to bother being polite about it.
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"Big Tish" James, AG and Celebrated Mortage Fraudster, Orders NY Hospital to Resume Transitioning Children After It Quits the Grisly Business
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This will result in the hospital losing federal funding.
Big Tish doesn't have any way to make up for that funding, nor did she promise that NY would set up a special fund to replace the federal funds.
She just wants the hospital to cut off children's breasts and dicks and suck up the funding shortfall. Maybe she'll give them tips on how to defraud the mortgage system to raise some cash.
New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered NYU Langone, one of the Big Apple's largest hospitals, to reinstate gender-affirming care for minors -- before ominously warning it would face "further action" if it did not comply.In a letter sent to the health care system on Feb. 25, the Empire State's chief lawyer claimed the absence of the Transgender Youth Health Program was "jeopardizing" health care access to vulnerable New Yorkers.
"NYU Langone appears to be suddenly and indefinitely cancelling transgender children's future appointments thereby jeopardizing access to medically necessary healthcare for some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers," the letter read.
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks at a protest against ICE in Manhattan.New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to the crowd at a protest event in Manhattan organized by The Public Theater in response to recent actions by Federal Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.C.E) in Minnesota. ZUMAPRESS.comThe medical center "permanently" axed the program in February after the Trump administration threatened to yank federal funding to the hospital if it continued providing gender-affirming care.
"Given the recent departure of our medical director, coupled with the current regulatory environment, we made the difficult decision to discontinue our Transgender Youth Health Program," a NYU Langone spokesman told The Post in February.
"We are committed to helping patients in our care manage this change. This does not impact our pediatric mental health care programs, which will continue."
James claimed that NYU Langone's decision violated New York's anti-discrimination laws after the hospital voluntarily made the change instead of being forced by any law.
"NYU Langone's change in policy is self-imposed; there has been no change in federal law to require the cessation of medically necessary transgender healthcare," the letter added.
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NYU Langone was one of several high-profile hospitals to pause its gender-affirming care for youth after President Trump threatened to remove federal funding from medical centers treating trans minors late last year.After dissolving the program, NYU Langone's website changed the "Trangender Youth Health Program" to the current "Gender & Sexuality Service.
Jonathan Turley calls this an assertion of authoritarian and insurrectionary state power against the federal government.
James's move could trigger a fascinating challenge. In the Feb. 25 letter signed by the attorney general's health care bureau chief, Darsana Srinivasan, the state said that the federal regulatory change did not affect a "medical institution's existing duties and obligations under New York law." That raises an interesting conflict between state and federal regulations.The letter gives the hospital until March 11 to comply and resume these treatments.
Effectively, James is ordering the hospital to defy the federal government. However, the hospital, not James or the state, would bear the financial and regulatory consequences.
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The problem with a federal challenge is that nothing in the New York threat prevents the federal government from carrying out its intent to cut off funding. Hospitals would have to choose between penalties in New York or loss of funding in Washington. Nevertheless, New York's move is a direct attack on the enforcement of federal policy by state hospitals.
If states are now free to ignore federal law, then I have a long list of federal laws states should nullify.
Beginning with the Warren Court judge-made law that states are compelled to spend citizen taxpayer dollars on the care, education, and welfare of illegal alien children illegally present in the state.
But I wouldn't stop there. Not even close.
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Tim Walz, Keith Ellison Face Congressmen on the Rampant Fraud They Encouraged and Enabled
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Full hearing here. A bunch of clips are below the fold.
Tim Walz says that Trump is "terrorizing" his state and he believes that Minnesota should to be able to defraud the American taxpayer without consequence.
Here's Politico, whining:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told lawmakers Wednesday that his state has been terrorized by the Trump administration over mass welfare fraud allegations, pointing to the killing of U.S. citizens in the midst of an immigration enforcement surge around Minneapolis."Let me be clear: In Minnesota, if you defraud public programs, if you steal taxpayer money, we'll find you, we'll prosecute you, we'll convict you, and we'll throw you in jail," the Democrat said in his opening remarks at a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
But, he added, "the people of Minnesota have been singled out and targeted for political retribution at an unparalleled scale, including blocking Medicaid reimbursements to our state just last week."
Walz, the 2024 nominee for vice president, is fending off accusations from congressional Republicans that he didn't do enough to prevent a scandal that has embroiled his state. Prosecutors have charged more than 90 people with defrauding the government, and two individuals connected to the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future were convicted of stealing federal nutrition funds in March.
The revelations have led the Trump administration to take drastic, punitive measures, such as prompting the Department of Health and Human Services to freeze its child care funding and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to cancel hundreds of millions in Medicaid money.
Walz, alongside Minnesota's Democratic attorney general, Keith Ellison, have been hauled to Capitol Hill to testify before the committee about the scandal -- and also to respond to an interim report committee Republicans released early Wednesday morning alleging that Walz and Ellison "knew about the fraud in federal programs administered by the State of Minnesota much earlier than they told the American people."
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) asked why Walz did not order the stop or suspend welfare program payments, despite warnings of fraud.
"We're not going to stop payments to feed children until we have the proof that things happen," Walz said.
Comer objected: "You didn't stop payments because you didn't want to rock the boat."
In his opening statement, Ellison maintained that his office has pursued fraud convictions aggressively where it has the jurisdiction to do so.
Republicans have homed in on the welfare scandal as an opportunity to disparage the state's Democratic leadership, but it also has fueled anti-immigrant rhetoric within the GOP -- specifically against Minnesota's large Somali community. At one point, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who is also a member of the Oversight panel, asked Walz whether he knew how many of those indicted have been Somali-American.
"We don't investigate or prosecute people based on ethnicity, religion--," Walz said, before Jordan interrupted him.
"Neither do I, we shouldn't do that," Jordan responded. "85 percent of the people indicted were Somali-American, a key voting bloc, and I think that's what drove this whole thing."
The White House quickly amplified video of the exchange on X.
The House Oversight Committee released a report revealing that Walz knew of the rampant fraud long before it was exposed -- but covered it up to keep the federal money flowing to his Somali Pirate Supporters.
Senior Minnesota government officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, were aware of claims of widespread fraud in the state's federally funded welfare programs for years, but failed to act other than to retaliate against whistleblowers, the House Oversight Committee concluded in a report released Wednesday.Both Walz and Ellison are scheduled to testify before the committee on Wednesday at 10:00 AM, the committee previously announced. They are likely to face questions from the committee about fraud schemes estimated to have cost taxpayers as much as $18 billion and that were first reported by Just the News in summer 2024.
Dozens of defendants, many of them Somali immigrants who settled in Minnesota, have been indicted or convicted in a sweeping federal fraud investigation.
Walz and Ellison were aware of fraud
"Testimony obtained by the Committee reveals that Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware of widespread fraud in social service programs, lied about their knowledge of the fraud, and retaliated against employees who dared to raise concerns," Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said in a statement.
"Instead of protecting vulnerable Americans, they handed over billions in taxpayer dollars to fraudsters and threw their own state employees under the bus," Comer added.
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The new video evidence allegedly showing empty daycare facilities registered to serve hundreds of children aligned with warnings from the state's legislative auditor dating back to 2018 that there were persistent signs of fraud in the program, Just the News reported.
The investigation also centered on a Minneapolis fraud ring connected to the state's Somali immigrant community that exploited the state's federally-funded food program. The Department of Justice first charged 47 people in 2021 as part of a $250 million scheme involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future that prosecutors alleged diverted federal COVID-19 relief funds for personal gain.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who served during the Biden administration, called it the largest pandemic-era fraud scheme ever identified.
Testimony from nine state officials
Walz, who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, previously acknowledged there is fraud in his state, but said his administration has made it a priority to root out for years.
However, the Oversight Committee believes the evidence shows the opposite, that Walz and his senior officials knew about the fraud concerns from the very beginning of his tenure and ultimately failed to act to address it before facing public backlash and pressure from the federal government in recent months.
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Though Walz originally said that he was informed about suspicious activity related to Feeding Our Future in November 2020, but he could not recall the precise date, one MDE official told the Oversight Committee that the Minnesota government had received complaints about the program as early as 2018.
MDE Assistant Commissioner Daron Korte, whose agency oversaw the money funneled to the Feeding Our Future food program from federal pandemic-era relief funds, confirmed that such complaints were received between 2018 and 2021.
He testified that Gov. Walz's office would have been informed of the concerns by April 2020 and that Attorney General Keith Ellison's office would have received a notice also.
When threatened with a lawsuit, Minnesota officials resumed funding
Once MDE found in March 2021 that Feeding Our Future was in "serious deficiency," the agency moved to cut off all funding to the organization. However, despite officials acknowledging the agency's authority to unilaterally cut funds, it resumed payments by April 30, 2021 over fears that the nonprofit would sue, Korte told congressional investigators.
"[We] could unilaterally make that decision, but we just knew, with Feeding our Future, it was going to end up in court and had the potential to be overturned," Korte testified.
Feeding Our Future's founder and executive director Aimee Bock -- who was eventually charged and convicted as part of the million dollar fraud scheme -- threatened MDE with a lawsuit in April 2021 claiming racial discrimination if funding was terminated. The nonprofit formally filed the lawsuit in November that year alleging violations of state law.
Minnesota official approved more food program sites after fraud concerns
Because of the threat of the lawsuit, MDE approved an additional four sites administered by Feeding Our Future even after fraud concerns had been raised by the agency. Korte said the agency did this because the U.S. Department of Agriculture refused to provide a justification under federal law for the state to cut off the funds.
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Tim Walz is doing his typical Blustering Homosexual Retard act, claiming simultaneously that he knows nothing about any of this but also that he knows enough that he can guarantee that everyone in his government acted perfectly.
Tim Walz can name every illegal arrested by ICE, but says he has no idea who two of his constituents murdered by illegal aliens are.
Jack @jackunheard3h
Tim Walz might have just landed himself in prison.
He just got exposed for RESTARTING taxpayer payments to Somali fraudsters tied to 'Feeding Our Future'
This is so damning...
Jim Jordan: "Why didn't you tell the truth about why you restarted the payments?"
WALZ: "The agency believed the court required them to make those payments."
JORDAN: "That was false. The court says the judge never ordered you to resume Feeding Our Future payments. So the court's lying?!"
WALZ: "I can't tell you!"
JORDAN: "Somebody's lying! Either you're lying or the court's lying. Which one?"
WALZ: "I just know what the attorneys said."
JORDAN: "Are you hiding behind the court? Is this about politics?!"
Insane @Jim_Jordan
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That Thing That Never Happens Happened Again
—Disinformation Expert Ace
larrymaloney @larrymaloneyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Shakir Khan Sentenced Following Denial of Motion to Withdraw Plea
On March 2, 2026, the Honorable Judge Northup sentenced Shakir Khan, who pled no contest to criminal counts that include election fraud and money laundering, underscoring the San Joaquin County District Attorney's firm commitment to safeguarding election integrity and holding accountable those who attempt to undermine our democratic process.
Khan was sentenced to three years under AB 109, to be served in county jail, with one year suspended and served on mandatory supervision. In addition, the court imposed an eight-year state prison term that is stayed, contingent upon Khan's successful completion of mandatory supervision. If Khan violates the terms of his supervision, the stayed prison term may be imposed.
San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas said, "Today's sentence shows the seriousness with which we take efforts to tamper with the electoral process in San Joaquin County. Accountability includes honoring the plea and fulfilling the terms of supervision. If Mr. Khan fails to comply, the full consequences of his sentence will be enforced."
The San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office remains committed to enforcing the rule of law and ensuring that all defendants adhere to their court-ordered obligations.
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Stephen Colbert's Election Interference Stunt/Hoax Works as the Democrat Establishment Fights Dirty to Block a Proud Black Woman from Attaining Higher Office
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Free Beacon's top Anti-Racism Reporter, Andrew Stiles, reports on the disgusting White Supremacy Plot to deny the Democrat senate nomination to the feisty, capable, Proud Black Woman Jasmine Ratchet (whom he erroneously calls Jasmine "Crockett," for some reason).
Mess in Texas: Billionaire-Backed Talarico Shrugs Off Racism Scandal To Steal Senate Nod From Jasmine CrockettThe media and Democratic elites got what they wanted: an unemployed black woman.
Andrew Stiles
March 4, 2026
James Talarico pulled off what is sure to be a controversial upset on Tuesday, defeating Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Democratic Senate primary. It was a contest marred by bitter infighting. Talarico faced credible accusations of racism, but still prevailed thanks to a billionaire-funded, establishment-approved, and media-facilitated push to brand Crockett as "unelectable." Many considered that code for black and proud.Journalists and other Democratic elites fawned over Talarico, a state lawmaker with the looks and demeanor of a fifth-grade boy giving an oral report for extra credit. They adored his "aw shucks, why can't we all just get along?" routine. In glowing profile after glowing profile, they marveled at his Christianity-themed rhetoric. (He once declared that "God is non-binary" while arguing that men should be allowed to compete in women's sports.) Former president Barack Obama called him a "terrific, talented young man." He was Beto O'Rourke 2.0--a new and improved version of the liberal darling who could "finally turn Texas blue" by appealing to normal Americans.
Meanwhile, a billionaire-funded super PAC linked to Talarico--who repeatedly assailed the influence of billionaire-funded super PACs--relentlessly attacked Crockett on the airwaves. The Lone Star Rising PAC, started by a longtime friend of Talarico just days before the candidate launched his Senate campaign, spent millions on negative ads against Crockett over the past few weeks. LinkedIn founder and Jeffrey Epstein pal Reid Hoffman was among the billionaires who bankrolled the super PAC, along with hedge fund titans Stephen Mandel and Mark Heising. The group also received millions via the same "dark money" networks Talarico had promised to ban via "anti-corruption" legislation.
Eyepatch John McCain also lost, but that wasn't due to racism. That was due to Able-ism. We were able to kick his ass to the curb, so we did.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
It is no secret to anyone who has been paying even a modicum of attention over the past fifty years that the primary purpose of international organizations is to interfere with and obstruct any action taken by the United States that could arguably be in its own interest. If the US acts as if its own interest is irrelevant - or even better, acts against its own interests - then the much-vaunted "international community" is usually indifferent or even sometimes supportive - so long as a check is involved. The moment the US has the audacity to act in its own interests, however, the wailing and gnashing of teeth can be heard the world over.
Putative ally or declared enemy, the behavior is fairly consistent. There is a reason Trump and Rubio withdrew the US from dozens of international organizations earlier this year. It was a long time coming. For far too long, the "international community" has taken for granted its right to bite the hand that feeds it and then complain if a check doesn't come. So it goes with international organizations, and this sadly does not extend merely to the irrelevant ones.
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The Morning Report — 3/4/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Obviously, the continued military strikes on Iran are in the lead, and yet while that's happening there is more action to report elsewhere in the world.
On Tuesday, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced that U.S. and Ecuadorian military forces launched joint operations against “Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador,” saying the narco-terrorist group had “long inflicted terror, violence, and corruption on citizens throughout the hemisphere.”This announcement marks a significant shift from training missions to active engagement. SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan praised the “unwavering commitment” and “courage” of the Ecuadorian armed forces, characterizing the collaboration as a decisive strike against the “scourge of narco-terrorism” that has destabilized the hemisphere through violence and systemic corruption.
Regardless of our large-scale military operations over Iran, despite this operation being much smaller in scale and limited in scope, it is good to know that the US military can still engage in multiple operations simultaneously and on different fronts many thousands of miles apart. Of course the Ecuadoran mission is in keeping with and follows close on the heels of our removal of the Chavez/Maduro regime in Venezuela and the disruption/destruction of its narco-trafficiking operations, as well as a warning to the world to stay the hell away from the Western Hemisphere and perhaps as a warning shot to the still extant Cuban Communist junta that they might be the next domino to fall, so to speak.
There have been other intra-Muslim fights: the war of West Pakistan on East Pakistan in 1971, with East Pakistan successfully resisting the West Pakistani troops who engaged in genocide as they murdered 3,000,000 Bengalis; the continuing war in Yemen between the Shia Houthis, backed by Iran, and the Sunnis of the National Government, backed by Saudi Arabia, that so far have resulted in 377,000 deaths; the current war in Libya between the rival forces based in Tripoli and Tobruk; the war, now subsided, between Morocco and Algeria over control of the Western Sahara; the genocidal war in Sudan between Muslim Arabs and black, mostly Muslim, Africans, leading to the breakup of Sudan into two states — Sudan and South Sudan; the war unleashed on Kuwait by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, who briefly annexed it as the “19th province of Iraq”; the war of Arabs against Kurds in Operation Al-Anfal, in Iraq, and now, we can add another war, still small but likely to grow bigger, between Pakistan and Afghanistan. . . Tit-for-tat attacks — Pakistani planes striking the Taliban in Afghanistan, Afghani Taliban setting off bombs inside Pakistan — have been going on for months. Now they seem to becoming more frequent, and more deadly. Pakistan has just announced that in a cross-border strike it killed 80 people in an attack on Taliban outposts in Afghanistan. And the Taliban have announced that they will soon launch an “appropriate response.” Don’t be alarmed. Just pull up a chair, and root for both sides.
Yeah, pass the popcorn! Guess we can thank Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his wizards of smart when they auto-penned our ass out of Afghanistan in a lickety-split bug-out that no one either understood or gave a shit about the consequences other than a political gambit to bolster electoral advantage by taking credit for bringing the boys home.
Yes, leaving, and abandoning the insane delusion of nation-building is always desirable, but doing so in such a way that does not create an even worse situation had we not gone in in the first place. The issue of our being in Afghanistan in the first place is something else entirely. But be that as it may, let's head back to Iran where a potential power vacuum is a distinct possibility now that we have essentially wiped out any successors to Khameini, not that another Mullah or an IRGC commander would have been desirable or acceptable.
It will be and must be solely up to the Persian people to install leaders that will respect their rights and freedoms and also not pose a threat to the rest of the world. Can that happen and will that happen are still very big question marks. As the last vestiges of the regime lash out at their nighbors as well as Israel, they're not gaining friends or influencing people, other than negatively.
I would not be surprised if Saudi Arabia soon signs the Abraham Accords. Nor would I be surprised if most of the last remaining Arab nations that have not yet done so join Saudi Arabia. We could very well be seeing a major realignment of alliances in the Middle East that could really really harbinger the beginnings of real peace in that region. Imagine: Israel at peace with all its neighbors, because the Arabs have finally recognized that it is to their own best interest to do so as well.
Even with a defanged Iran that morphs into a nation with a government that perhaps resembles something akin to the Emirates, I will have to disagree with my friend insofar as the one thing that overshadows all of this is ISLAM. My personal view is that unless and until the Islamic world, from governments down to individual Muslims renounce the teachings in the Koran that call for the death of Jews, Christians and infidels or their subjugation into the global Islamic Ummah/caliphate, then all of these accords are just not worth the paper they're written on. All of it to me is merely part and parcel of the concept of Taqqiya so that Shiites and Sunnis can gain an advantage over each other for control of Islam and then ultimately gain control of the infidels on the way to global conquest for all time.
Sign all the treaties you want, but the notion that the Arab Muslim world will live in peace with Israel let alone recognize its right to even exist is a pipe dream. That said, even a cold peace as exists with Egypt and Jordan is the best that can be hoped for, and even then, those two nations with their borders on two massive "palestinian" abcesses (Gaza and the West Bank) have done less than zero to legitimately normalize their relations with Israel in all these years of so-called "peace." And have actively worked against the accords they signed.
All that aside, prior to Jimmy Carter stabbing the Shah and Iranian people in the back by paving the way for the Mullahs, Iran and Israel did have close strategic and diplomatic ties. Can that be resuscitated come the final downfall of the Mullahs and please God the installation of a sane government, we'll have to wait and see. Considering Israel vaporized a meeting with many of the leading candidates to be he next leader, The IRGC awaits Al Franken's '77 Buick Le Sabre to deliver a load of ballots!
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Daily Tech News 4 March 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Apple has announced its new MacBook Pro range with update M5 Pro and M5 Max CPUs and faster SSD speeds. (Tom's Hardware)
The SSD speeds are simple: They're still Apple's awkward proprietary solution, but the speed has been increased to PCIe 5.0 levels. I'm not sure how much difference that makes to a laptop, but it's not unwelcome.
The CPU story is a little more complicated. Both the M5 Pro and M5 Max feature up to 18 cores, though only 6 of those are performance cores, or what Apple has retroactively renamed "Super" cores. They are the same as the performance cores in the existing M5 chips, which we know because those cores have also been renamed.
But the other 12 cores aren't efficiency cores, they're "Performance" cores, though precisely what that means we don't know.
Also, there's no longer a 512GB option; the price has been increased by $100 but the base model now comes with 1TB of SSD.
Most importantly, the price of memory hasn't increased. It's not exactly cheap, but it's not much more than the market price for regular DDR5 modules now, and provides a lot more bandwidth.
- There's also a new MacBook Air and, expected tomorrow, the entry-level MacBook Neo. (Notebook Check)
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 3, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for very random mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety. Disco is handling the Wednesday ONT this week which leaves you stuck with the Dino tonight.
Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT which means another edition of very random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. i will be disappointed if the gray boxes are not full of puns and innuendo. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Bonus points if you can ignore Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens, etc. in the comments.
[Top photo: Bone take-off from Nellis AFB. Photo by Camden Thrasher. He's pretty good with a camera.]
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Goodnight Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Lindisfarne Castle, under a very Northumberland sky.
by Northumberland Photography/@PaulAppleby_01
Dogs get more loyal as they age.
Little Punch stands up to a bully.
It takes a village to raise some puppies.
Cocaine's a hell of a drug, man.
River otter is up to something.
Dog won't stop breaking into the neighbor's pool.
Neglected local door asks nice couple to adopt her.
Posting again: Orphaned baby rhinos are the cutest horny puppies.
180 pound boerboel is a velcro dog.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Looks like Tucker Carlson was half right about teams of Demolition Jews sneaking around Qatar and Dubai planting explosives.
Agents were in fact arested.
Agents of his patron Iran, that is.
Max 📟 @MaxNordau37m
BREAKING: Foreign agent Tucker Carlson lied that Qatar had arrested Mossad agents.
Turns out that Qatar had actually arrested 10 IRGC agents.
Allah has a sense of irony!
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State of Qatar
Doha, March 3 (QNA) -- As part of ongoing efforts to protect the security and stability of the state, the competent authorities were able to arrest two cells working in favor of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the State of Qatar.
Monitoring and follow-up operations resulted in the arrest of ten suspects: seven of them were assigned espionage tasks to gather information about vital and military facilities in the country, and three others were assigned to carry out sabotage operations and received training in the use of drones. They were also found to possess locations and coordinates of sensitive facilities, as well as communication tools and technical devices.
The suspects admitted during investigations to their connection with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and to being tasked with espionage and sabotage activities.
The State Security apparatus calls on citizens and residents to remain vigilant and cautious and to report any suspicious activities to the competent authorities.
May God protect Qatar, its Emir, and its people from all harm, and may He grant us the blessing of security and safety.
Here's video from Sky News (I think) to prove this isn't just more Zionist Lies, as Tucker would say.
Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby9m
To recap:
Yesterday, Tucker Carlson that Qatar arrested Mossad agents planting bombs.
This morning, Qatar stated that Tucker's claim was entirely false.
This evening, Qatar announced they arrested IRGC sleeper cells.
Baba Banaras @RealBababanarasBREAKING: Esmail Qaani, head of Iran's Quds Force, has survived all assassination attempts so far, and was even with Khamenei yesterday but escaped again. Now he has allegedly been taken into custody by the IRGC on suspicion of being a Mossad agent and working for Israel.
PoIiMath @politicalmath4h
You either die an Ayatollah or you live long enough for them to suspect you're Mossad
Fetterman's Lump had control of the body today, and spoke wisely.
Communist jihadist Zohran Mamdani announces free child care -- meaning, babysitters -- for illegals. I'm sure it's his idea that he'll pirate federal money to pay for this.
Regime thugs are shooting at protesters in Iran again. Send in the drones!
A very patriotic left-wing influencer says Trump should have allowed Iran to bomb US servicemen first, which would have given him a perfect justification to hit Iran and a "PR victory." He faults Trump for being so stupid as to not see the benefits of this awesome "let American soldiers die for PR points" plan.
In the previous post, Trump mentioned his anger at the UK for denying us the use of our own base at Diego Garcia.
Is this his vengeance? He wants the US government to create a corporation to insure cargoes going through the Strait of Hormuz. (Shipping companies will pay for the insurance, Trump just wants to spin up a company to provide it.)
This would have the effect of hurting the current main insurer, the UK super-insurer Lloyd's of London.
Check out Bill Kristol's opinion on Iran -- use military force to crush the regime -- from January 8, 2026, when he was attacking Trump for not attacking Iran, with his current opinion, that Trump must not be allowed a "blank check" to fight an illegal war in Iran.
Wow! What a difference fifty days makes!!!
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Trump: I Told Scott Bessent to Cut Off All Trade with Spain
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He says that Spain wouldn't let us use our bases in Spain, but then adds: "We could have used the bases, we could have just used them, no one's going to say anything about it."
In other words: Just try stopping us, Spain.
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Netflix Head Ted Sandaros Tried to Convince GOP Congressmen His Company Wasn't a Woke Groomer Propaganda Outfit.
Then Legislators Visited Netflix HQ, and Found Tampons in the Men's Bathroom.
Plus: Megyn Kelly, The Chameleon Princess of Pop Politics
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Well, maybe we're a little woke.
Netflix tried to sweet-talk Congress into letting them gain near-monopoly power in the entertainment space. GOP Congressmen feared another woke propaganda monopoly. Ted Sanadaros lied, claiming Netflix was just an entertainment company with no interest at all in grooming children.
Well, maybe a little. (Caution: Links to poster for Netflix's 11-year-old-girls sex-twerking movie "Cuties.")
There were many defining moments featured in the months-long battle for the ownership of Warner Bros. Discovery: sit-downs to woo President Trump, high-profile congressional hearings, a brutal bidding war, and a tampon.Yes, a tampon.
During the negotiations, while Netflix was telling skeptical GOP lawmakers that it wasn't a left-wing company looking to get more powerful by snapping up WBD, a delegation of legislators paid a visit to its headquarters, and one was both shocked and disturbed to find a basket containing tampons in the men's restroom.
To be clear, there are other factors involved in CEO Ted Sarandos' decision to cancel his nearly completed purchase of WBD's studio and streaming service. But the "tampon incident," as it has become known on Capitol Hill, does carry some weight in the unwavering political opposition from the GOP to Sarandos' ambitions.
"This is 2026, not 2020," said one GOP staffer with firsthand knowledge of the matter. "What were they thinking?"
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During the six-month bidding war, many Republicans in Congress, state AG offices and of course the White House came to believe that Netflix was seeking to create a monopoly in streaming -- an increasingly important way Americans consume entertainment.
Netflix denied this, arguing it faces competition for consumers from social media and YouTube, though opposition only seemed to intensify in recent weeks. One big worry: Netflix would use the market clout that WBD would give it to further push progressivism in its programming.
Sarandos has long argued that Netflix programming appeals to all political tastes, but conservative-leaning advocacy groups have produced research that its programming and documentaries more often push themes such as transgenderism, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), and other issues near and dear to the cultural left.
Sarandos and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, meanwhile, are both big supporters of Democrats and progressive policies. Susan Rice, a top official in the lefty Obama administration and a staunch critic of Trump, sits on its board. It was Rice's inopportune comments on a podcast attacking companies that do business with Trump that is also said to have cost Sarandos more White House support for the WBD deal.
Now that Paramount (almost) owns WB, John Oliver will probably be the next to join Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel in the podcasting world.
"We might be getting a new business daddy!," Oliver quipped at the beginning of Sunday night's show. "Last Week Tonight" airs on HBO, which sits within Warner Bros. Discovery. Under the announced terms, Paramount plans to buy all outstanding WBD shares at $31 per share in cash, with the companies saying the deal is expected to close in Q3 2026, subject to regulatory clearances and WBD shareholder approval.
"Yeah, not great news," he went on to say. "In fact, if I may quote anyone who's ever accidentally sat on their Roku remote, I'm in Paramount now...how the f-ck do I get out of here?'"
Speaking of left-wing media that endlessly promotes the grooming of children: Highly Alleged Born-Again Catholic and #SuddenOnsetBasedWarrior Megyn Kelly, everybody, when someone else was signing her checks. Here she welcomes "transgender" children, between 11 and 13 years old, and a transgender agitator for "the Gender-Cool Project."
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Bin the Navy: Trump Announces Iran's Navy Now Sleeps With the Fishes;
US Bombs the "Assembly of Experts" As It Attempts to Choose a New Ayatollah
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I mean, come on. Even if you're a pro-Iran antisemite like Tucker Carlson or Megyn Kelly, you have to admit it's pretty funny to bomb the "Assembly of Experts" as they debate who should be the next Ayatollah to be killed within days.
As Iran's ruling clerics moved to fill the power vacuum left by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death, Israeli warplanes struck at the heart of the regime's leadership -- targeting a gathering reportedly convened to choose his successor.Multiple outlets reported Wednesday that the Israeli Air Force hit a site in the city of Qom where members of Iran's powerful Assembly of Experts had assembled. The 88-member clerical body is constitutionally responsible for appointing the country's supreme leader, and according to Fox News, the strike came as votes were being counted to name Khamenei's replacement.
Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency claimed the structure struck overnight was an outdated building no longer used by the assembly. Images circulating online from Qom show a heavily damaged structure reduced to rubble.
Khamenei's death Saturday triggered immediate constitutional procedures requiring the Assembly of Experts to act "in the shortest time possible" to select a new leader. Iran's ISNA news agency reported that the body had indicated the process "won't take long." Still, Reuters noted that officials may delay announcing a successor amid fears that any newly elevated figure would quickly become a target for U.S. or Israeli forces.
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Trump: Tucker and Megyn Aren't MAGA -- Trump Is MAGA. Whatever Tucker Carlson Says It Has No Effect On Me.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Tucker is literally repeating the exact same propaganda as the pro-Ummah communist Ryan Grim. Over the past few days, Iran has shot missiles and sent its Shahid drones to attack all of the Gulf States.
In fact, Iran officially announced this was their policy: To attack all "economic zones" in the Middle East, chiefly energy production, I guess to compel the Gulf States and Saudis to rescue them from the US and Israel. Or to just punish them for supporting the war against them.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have long been not-too-secretly acting with the US and even Israel against Iran, the real country that's "at war with seven of its neighbors," as Nazi crank and fat nepo baby drunk Tucker Carlson would say.
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Supreme Court Votes 6-3 to Suspend California Law Which Permits Teachers to "Trans" Students Secretly Without Telling Their Parents
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Two liberals and one libertarian joined the two conservatives and the pudgy RINO.
This is not a final order. However, it reverses a Ninth Circus appeals court ruling that would have put this lawless "law" into effect during the litigation.
The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student's approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group.The order blocks for now a state law that bans automatic parental notification requirements if students change their pronouns or gender expression at school.
The split decision comes after religious parents and educators challenged California school policies aimed at preventing schools from outing students to their families. Two sets of Catholic parents represented by the Thomas More Society say it caused schools to mislead them and secretly facilitate the children's social transition despite their objections.
California, on the other hand, argued that students have the right to privacy about their gender expression, especially if they fear rejection from their families. The state said that school policies and state law are aimed at striking a balance with parents' rights.
The high court majority, though, sided with the parents and reinstated a lower-court order blocking the law and school policies while the case continues to play out.
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"The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. California's policies violate those beliefs," and burden the free exercise of religion, the majority wrote in an unsigned order.The court's three liberal justices publicly dissented, saying the case is still working its way through lower courts and there was no need to step in now. "If nothing else, this Court owes it to a sovereign State to avoid throwing over its policies in a slapdash way, if the Court can provide normal procedures. And throwing over a State's policy is what the Court does today," Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
Groomer ghouls. They want all children to be gay or trans, and they want the state to impose this on them.
All of the communist groomer outlets claimed the Supreme Court blocked "protections" for "transgender youth" and diminished their "rights." In fact, the law was about ordering teachers to transition children against their parents' wishes and in secret.
All parents should adopt a minimum level of religiosity, even if they're nonbelievers. The Court keeps ruling that only a religious objection is valid when objecting to the state grooming your children to be trans. If you're like me and you object for non-religious reasons, they say "Fuck You, that's not a good enough reason to be a transphobe, bigot. Unless you have some kind of religious basis for your trans hate, you have to let us groom your children."
So everyone with kids should just make sure they go to church or temple once a month.
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Video of Bill and Hillary Clinton Depositions Released
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They lie and lie and lie, but the lies are not proven to be lies in the deposition videos themselves.
The deposition also included "Pizzagate." Asked whether she had ever seen Epstein-related files referencing coded language tied to the claim, Clinton dismissed it outright. "Pizzagate was totally made up," she said, noting it led to a 2016 shooting at a Washington, D.C., restaurant.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly denied ever knowing Epstein personally.
Bill Clinton, meanwhile, faced extended questioning about his interactions with Epstein, including multiple flights aboard Epstein's private jet.
Asked directly whether he had ever discussed young women or girls with Epstein, the former president responded, "No."
He told lawmakers he had no knowledge of Epstein's criminal conduct at the time and insisted nothing in his past correspondence reflected awareness of illegal behavior. Clinton acknowledged traveling with Epstein in the early 2000s in connection with foundation-related work, including trips to Africa, Asia, and Europe. He said he believed he first met Epstein in 2002.
He confirmed Epstein had visited the Clinton Foundation office in Harlem and that he had made a brief visit to Epstein's Manhattan residence.
Lawmakers also pressed him about a photograph showing him in a hot tub with an unidentified woman at a hotel in Brunei. Clinton said the stay occurred at the invitation of the sultan and that members of his team, along with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, were present. He said he did not recognize the woman and denied any sexual relationship.
"I had forgotten that there was anybody in the hot tub," he said.
He also read aloud a note he had written for Epstein's 50th birthday, describing Epstein's "childlike curiosity" and wide circle of friends. After reading it, Clinton remarked, "Not a bad letter," while maintaining it did not reference or imply knowledge of criminal conduct. "I thought Epstein was interesting and curious," he said.
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The Morning Rant: Marco Rubio Is A Star, And He Isn't The Only One In The Cabinet!
—CBD
Our current Secretary of State may be the most consequential one in the last 50 years. Marco Rubio is teaching a master class in how to be a statesman, a diplomat, and a powerful and unapologetic defender of the president's policies.
And as JD Vance dabbles in partisan politics, and perhaps even flirts with the lunatic faux-right, Marco Rubio is cementing his position as an indispensable part of President Trump's administration, and perhaps a rising star for the 2028 Republican Presidential nomination.
Here is Marco Rubio's press conference on March 2nd, 2026, which has been butchered by the mainstream media to make the administration sound as if it is flailing. But a full listen will reveal a perfectly prepared presentation of the rationale behind our preemptive strikes against the Iranian theocratic maniacs.
Secretary Rubio has full command of the facts, and presents exactly the correct tone of deference to the President without sounding like an apparatchik. There is no parallel foreign policy being conducted on the sly...he is a proud American, a proud member of the Trump administration, and gives the impression that he is 100% on board with the President's goals.
It is a testament to President Trump's resolve to be a different president than in his first term; he has chosen a far more impressive cabinet, with a few bona fide stars. Rubio, Scott Bessent at Treasury, Doug Burgum at Interior, Pete Hegseth at War, Lee Zeldin at EPA, RFK Jr. at HHS, and several others who are comporting themselves well.
Sure, we can bitch and moan about a few others, in particular Bondi at Justice, but President Trump has constructed a superb cabinet without any of the political turmoil of his last administration and, more importantly, without the disloyalty that was rife among the GOPe-chosen officials.
I look forward to these people continuing their work for years, if not in the next Republican administration, then in Congress or their state houses or governor's mansions!
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